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A Babushka is an elderly Russian woman who emigrated to Canada a few years ago. She survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and is now ill. On the border between imagination and reality, her ten-year-old grandson is determined to find a solution for her "destroyed lungs." Narrated in the first person and written from the naive, tender, and sometimes ironic perspective of a child, this novel recounts the grandson's pilgrimage across a continent, as well as numerous adventures in his hometown, inhabited by a whole group of curious characters.
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Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow, Joao Reis
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Bedraggling Grandma with Russian Snow
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joao Reis
- Publisher
- Corona/ Samizdat
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 961951968X
- ISBN13
- 9789619519684
- Series
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- A Babushka is an elderly Russian woman who emigrated to Canada a few years ago. She survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and is now ill. On the border between imagination and reality, her ten-year-old grandson is determined to find a solution for her "destroyed lungs." Narrated in the first person and written from the naive, tender, and sometimes ironic perspective of a child, this novel recounts the grandson's pilgrimage across a continent, as well as numerous adventures in his hometown, inhabited by a whole group of curious characters.